skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> higher education has traditionally been about - exposure to a lot of concepts

I completely agree. However, we have not had that (lots of concepts) for decades. Universities are largely ideologically monocultural now. This isn't education, it's indoctrination.

And, when you include the fact that students are paying tens of thousands of dollars for all of their non-major courses, this quickly turns into a tragedy. Most people take decades to pay off their student loans.

General education needs to happen in K-12. There are plenty of cultures around the world where high school students graduate with impressive (compared to average US) cultural background and exposure.

Sometimes flipping things around can be useful. Nobody in their right mind would suggest an English or History major should be forced to take a solid year worth of CS coursework as a condition for obtaining the degree. Why is the reverse OK? It is not. We've just come to accept it.

Here's another thought experiment: Imagine I was allowed by the Department of Education to grant Bachelor degrees in CS while focusing 100% on CS coursework. My four-year graduates would absolutely destroy anyone from a university who wasted their time with non-STEM courses. They would be brutally better candidates for every job. It would be a truly unfair advantage. That's how our current system is damaging our young professionals. They are forcing them to waste a year of their lives on stuff nobody cares about when hiring.
Those aren't really going to have an effect on the charging though. This standardization is only concerned about charging.

So no one is going to pick a theoretical "USB-D" that requires every cable to be able to carry 40 gb/s to be a standard. I don't need a 40 gb/s cable to charge a battery pack.
If you think that sending data to a remote server is equally private to not sending it, then you are the one who doesn't know what privacy means.

Of course it's fine to not desire privacy, or to desire a privacy level that is less than private. That's up to you. I liked the privacy of my old Canon digicam that had no internet. A photo app on a phone that sends stuff over the network might bring some useful functionality in return, but it can only be considered a regression in terms of privacy.
The problem is that labor laws and practical considerations make it so that most other options are infeasible and/or illegal. Business model innovation in employment is basically illegal.

Professional sports take interesting and varied approaches to the subject, but even they are facing challenges (see ‘free transfers’ in the European football market).
Quantum computers don't and won't meaningfully exist for a while, and once they do exist, they still won't be able to crack it. Quantum computers aren't this magical "the end is nigh" gotcha to everything and unless you're that deep into the subject, the bigger question you've got to ask yourself is why is a magic future technology so important to you that you just had to post your comment?

Anyway, back to the subject at hand; here's Apple on that subject:

> We use BFV parameters that achieve post-quantum 128-bit security, meaning they provide strong security against both classical and potential future quantum attacks

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/homomorphic-encry...

https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/
How much size would it take to store a model of every known location in the world and common things?

For ex: I sent a friend a photo of my puppy in the bathtub and her Airpods (via iphone) announced "(name) sent you a photo of a dog in a bathtub". She thought it was really cool and so do I personally. That's a useful feature. IDK how much that requires going off-device though.
Here’s a better streetview link. You can see the dirt berm that the aircraft hit is located far inside the perimeter wall. Also the wall is pretty dang thin and would not have stopped a 737 like that.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/NHh9eDtAGGtZY9fH7
I used to use a site called Nitter for the same reason, but it stopped working. I think X/Twitter changed something.
You're welcome to check their implementation yourself:

https://github.com/apple/swift-homomorphic-encryption
Postgres to ClickHouse Real Time Replication Using PeerDB
Europe doesn’t matter. At all. It’s a dying and increasingly irrelevant place. Sorry but true.
You can take this any way you like, but I'm genuinely trying to offer constructive criticism. Whether you mean to or not, you come across as bitter and angry.

...also a little socially awkward? Why use my last name in this forum? Not that it bothers me; I deliberately maintain a public profile. But the convention here is to use each other's usernames, and you had to click through at least a couple links to see my name. Do we know each other? I presume not, or you would have used my first name.

There's something a little strange about it; either you aren't picking up on community social conventions, or you're deliberately trying to break them. It's just a small and almost insignificant data point, but if I had to take a totally wild guess, these sorts of subtle social issues are what interviewers are picking up on.
You could poke around with Harvard's product dev/strat sim thing:
https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/7701-HTM-ENG

If you wanna try a bunch of topics you can check out Brilliant.org.
Heating is absolutely uncommon in kathmandu. People depend on sunlight for warmth and when no sunlight, no warmth. They live in cold place. SInce no heating, very very cold. I think I will go to a library(I've to pay 5K/month for AC equipped library)....I know culture no difference.
> It's a belief in no god(s)

That would be better stated as "no belief in gods". The vast majority of atheists in non religious societies aren't spending much time thinking about how there are no gods, or reading up on how they should believe there are gods. They just aren't thinking about it at all, it isn't something they work at.

To steal a quote: "not going skiing isn't a hobby".
Huh, I've heard about this for a while but for some reason thought it was strictly regarding phones, maybe because they've been making the biggest headlines about it. Looking forward to it then.
Its quite a nice service. Host my own mail server quite happily on it. I don't have any anti incoming spam setup which is getting a little annoying though.
> although I'm not an aviation expert

In this case, you need to be an aviation and an avian expert.
A whiteboard and post-its.

Not being sarcastic.
> running Windows

oof..
Even North Koreans hate Windows. Or are at least branching out to Mac and Linux. Lol
To be fair, there is a very good case for ignoring applications that list different certifications if you’re hiring. I fear the same would logic would apply to licensing.
Can this be verified?
Pretty good points on a topic of vital importance today. More points and data at;

Societal Collapse - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse

Review of "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter mentioned in the article - https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-06-07/the-collapse-o...

Why societies grow more fragile and vulnerable to collapse as time passes - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240424-do-societies-civ...

Why Complex Systems Collapse Faster - https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/why-comp...

How Complex Systems Fail by Richard Cook. This is a good one and lists 18 points to think about - https://how.complexsystems.fail/

Finally, Nassim Taleb's writings on Black Swan events, Power Laws/Fat Tails, Mediocristan vs. Extremistan and Robustness vs. Anti-Fragile are also relevant here. Here is a good overview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcqt49dXtm8
Everytime I read these articles, it's just, train a ML model and beat the bookie. So simple in hindsight.
Yeah, USB-C is a bit of a nightmare when it comes to knowing what a given cable can actually do.
There is such a system available. It’s called EMAS. It’s unclear if it installed at this airport and if this accident was within it’s capabilities, if it was installed. But it did save Mike Pence once. Also A-Rod.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_materials_arrestor_...
I’m a cryptographer and I just learned about this feature today while I’m on a holiday vacation with my family. I would have loved the chance to read about the architecture, think hard about how much leakage there is in this scheme, but I only learned about it in time to see that it had already been activated on my device. Coincidentally on a vacation where I’ve just taken about 400 photos of recognizable locations.

This is not how you launch a privacy-preserving product if your intentions are good, this is how you slip something under the radar while everyone is distracted.
I’d be very curious to know where the survivors were seated on the plane.

It’s a miracle anyone survived.
Paper [All objects and some questions (2023)](https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/91/10/819/2911822/All-...)

Previous discussion (16 points, 4 days ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42486020
That's what rallying against Apple in the name of privacy is already...
I'm happy to be corrected on this, but your source says nothing about the kind of cookies I mentioned. Examples of strictly necessary cookies are auth sessions and shopping cart contents, not preferred language or default location. Paragraph 25 of the law states[1]:

> Where such devices, for instance cookies, are intended for a legitimate purpose, such as to facilitate the provision of information society services, their use should be allowed on condition that users are provided with clear and precise information in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC about the purposes of cookies or similar devices so as to ensure that users are made aware of information being placed on the terminal equipment they are using. Users should have the opportunity to refuse to have a cookie or similar device stored on their terminal equipment.

Is storing preferred language or default location strictly necessary, or just a legitimate purpose (and thus requires consent)? The EU has had since 2009 to clarify this, but many sites (including the news article about the USB-C law) interpret it to mean that consent is required, and thus have cookie banners for these things.

If you can't agree that the cookie law is a bad law that either needs to be repealed, clarified, or made more strict, then I don't know what to tell you. It's a perfect example of a well-intended law that causes more problems than it solves. And it's a perfect example of the EU failing to update a law with clear flaws. I don't know if the USB-C law will have a similar outcome, but considering the EU's track record, I'm not confident it will be a good thing in the long term.

1. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...
Wow, that is indeed quite strange - that’s a very high speed for having scraped along a 9000 foot runway.

They either landed extremely long or it rhymes a bit with the Pakistani Airlines accident of an attempted gear-up landing go around a couple of years back, both not implausible in the context of already dealing with a bird strike. There are also edge cases where the plane won’t yell Landing Gear at you, and it‘s really really hard to get a 737 to a point where you can’t lower the gear anymore (multiple hydraulic systems failing, gravity pins and pulleys as well, Stig Aviation did a great video on that.)

Pretty sure there was no EMAS, as the plane dips down into the dirt at the end of the runway right away, ie not that much lift, and EMAS would do orders of magnitude more arresting.
I didn't paraphrase, I put the exact quote[1] I had copied earlier from goodreads in google and got garbage.

I use only local LLM's, So if anyone has Open AI's search tools give it a shot.

[1] "Few hundred years of Western society that we have lost the ability to memorise vast amounts of information."

― Lynne Kelly, Memory Craft: Improve your memory using the most powerful methods from around the world
Better for planes to hit a concrete wall than take out a neighborhood downstream from the runway.
They don't "have your data," even at an aggregated and noised level, due to the homomorphic encryption part.

Restating the layers above, in reverse:

- They don't see either your data or the results of the query (it's fully encrypted even from them where they compute the query -- this is what homomorphic encryption means)

- Even if they broke the encryption and had your query data / the query result, they don't know who "you" are (the relay part)

- Even if they had your query hash and your identity, they couldn't reverse the hash to identify which specific photos you have in your library (the client-side vectorization + differential privacy part), though by the this point they could know what records in the places database were hits. So they could know that you took a photo of a landmark, but only if the encryption and relay were both broken.
What is this, North Korea, where jeans are banned? Lol
Investors value OpenAI more than $150bn, but it just reported $5bn loss on $3.7bn revenue: the financial pressure is tremendous and that cannot last long.
It's the same kind of situation as with Google vs. Yahoo in the early days, when the clean interface without much ads was a very strong USP.
Did you upgrade from a previous version?
I feel the same way, but it’s actually not easy to detect LLMs. Anyone who experimented with writing styles and been using them for a while, can easily create texts that are indistinguishable from a real person.

Fine tune a small LLM to your past emails, cover letters, resumes and etc. then go ham.
My electricity is not free, I would be satisfied with partially subsidizing these units too though
Reverse engineering is a separate skillet on its own, on top of the other ones you need to read the source code and good developers aren't necessarily good at that.

> After all, you wouldn’t actually be trusting the source code given to you to match what’s running on your device, would you?

That's why the best practice in the industry follows reproducible builds.
Italian Privacy Watchdog Fines OpenAI $15.5M
This is correct and yet kinda misses the point. The market exists specifically because of one of the most fundamental and basic of government functions: who is allowed to enter the country and work. Those market economics revolves around whatever the government decides to do: firstly when it created the H1B system and now when all the politicians are arguing over how to handle the abuse of the program.

I’d call it something more along the lines of “regulatory capture” than a freely operating market.
Seems quasi-impossible on a commercial airliner. This thing is going to beep and alert like hell about the landing gears being up. The most likely cause is a complex series of event that led to the landing gears not coming down. Landing gears have multiple redundancies so this is predictably going to be an unfortunately very informative investigation for the aviation sector.
> What would test -x say on Windows, which has no executable bit?

It would say whether the file extension is executable (part of pathext env variable)
Scraping ETF historical holdings data
I've found that there are often different trigger phrases I can use to get an LLM to "change its mind".

For Llama, I can just say "Are you sure?" and it will change its tune (unless it's quite "certain" about the results).

Qwen is more insistent, but will change course if I say "I looked it up and it says you're wrong".
Still nonsense.

Train stations and airports are where they are. Lots of them are quite close to downtowns. Others aren't. Nobody's changing their locations in existing large cities.

There are plenty of cities where the nearest airport is closer than the nearest long distance rail station. There are plenty of cities where they aren't.
Thanks, ghostty looked really off in KDE by default.
It's depressing that using Firefox is becoming security by obscurity.
Related Plastic List (589 points, 1 day ago, 179 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42525633
Quite a bit of links, information, and speculation on r/aviation

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1holbp4/jeju_air_...
EMAS is common ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_materials_arresto... ), but many airports are built in areas where you’re inherently locked in and there’s a choice of runway, EMAS, grass overrun, but a fixed total distance available.
> I guess indexing photos offline in phone is not very feasible yet.

There has been a form of on device indexing since at least iOS 12. My understanding is it performs a basic indexing typically overnight when the phone is charging and allows one to perform searches like "dog" or "car" and pull up matching images.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/search-in-photos-iph3...
That or schizophrenia
HN is a bit of an bubble - the vast majority of Americans never leave the town they were born in.

Picking up and moving across the country is pretty rare in America as well. More common than Latin America, but still not that common.

That said, I would say the biggest contributor to my economic success is my mobility. But it is a trade off, it certainly has an impact on the family and social unit.
Difficult to say but I'm guessing some kind of military response with adequate previous warning would have happened. There's no way NATO would have let slipped an assassination like this, this would open up the path to more assassinations if unanswered.
Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL (2020)
iPhones are only water resistant. I wouldn’t recommend putting one through a wash cycle.
it is quite improbable. they can deploy landing gears using gravity so unless the birds killed that system(they can't) it was probably pilot error. just like in pakistan in 2020 that destroyed the engines so they couldn't perform the go around and they crashed.
Seagulls were a factor in collapse of California's iconic Santa Cruz wharf
Yep. It's essentially an implementation of remote attestation "the other way around". Normally the edge device is untrusted and needs to attest a variety of things before compute is done and the result is accepted, but PCC is the other way where the edge device holds the keys (technically octagon works that out, but it's backed by the on-device SEP).

So it does it multiple ways:

- Finite sets and added noise, doesn't hurt performance too much but does make it nearly impossible to ID/locate a photo

- Encryption at rest and in transit

- Transit over hops they don't own

- Homomorphic Encryption during remote compute

The data it finds was available in two ways: the "result" and the vector embedding. Not sure which one you end up consuming since it also has to work on older models that might not be able to load the embeddings and perform adequately, but it doesn't matter since the data itself will be unique so you can't do parallel reconstruction, but it is also uniquely meaningless to anyone without a key. They are essentially computing on needles that aren't in a haystack, but in a needle stack.

The primitives all this is built on have been around for quite a while, including their HBONE implementation, the cryptographically hidden data distribution and the SEP. So far, it has been the only one of its kind outside of disjointed options like buying and operating your own HSM, a large TOR network and a yet to-be-invented self-hosted PCC solution (AMD was supposed to release something but they failed at that, just not as bad as Intel messed up with SGX).

Technically, even with everything else removed, just some good TLS 1.2+ and homomorphic encryption would have been more than any other mass market manufacturer has ever done in an effective way. But by adding the additional factors such as degrees of separation so they couldn't get in themselves (without breaking it for everyone in the process) is what makes this so much more robust.
Ah, I had interpreted your statements as an issue of manufacture and availability, not financing.

As to finance, it does suck that we throw billions at economically, socially, and/or globally destructive, unprofitable startups and yet something that is a net good for society and environment can't get that funding. I guess that's where government steps in or private/public partnerships.

Good luck though!
Not an aviation expert or enthusiast, but I'd imagine in a commercial airliner if the gear was not deployed and the pilot was trying to land, at a certain point the plane would start yelling at the crew something like "NO GEAR" "NO GEAR" "NO GEAR (deployed)"

So I don't think a pilot can just "forget" to deploy the landing gear in a commercial airliner.
As far as I know, Americans refer to themselves as Americans and South Americans do not.
They say there are two kinds of pilots: those who have landed gear up, and those who will. I’ve seen it happen with small planes three times.

It should be quite rare on airliners due to having two pilots and good warning systems. It’s plausible that the pilot would forget, but both of them forgetting and never noticing the plane screaming at them is unlikely.
I didn’t say Norway isn’t in Europe. Read my comment carefully.
I'm waiting for how they're going to blame the AI.
this ain’t about pre-screening at all, it is about solving a different kind of problem. if you have experienced it already, you haven’t interviewed anyone recently.
The three pointer isn’t the problem. I actually prefer the three point shooting. It also seems like it encourages athleticism over raw size.

The real problem, in my opinion, is the lack of aggression. It’s what made sports more interesting to watch in the 80s and 90s. It’s been toned down to the point where it’s not interesting.
Theo de Raadt is less competent than Apple's security team (and its external researchers). The main thing OpenBSD is known for among security people is adding random mitigations that don't do anything because they thought them up without talking to anyone in the industry.
> The only alternative would be to start discharging at 75%

Not necessarily, Chargie lets you configure minimum charge, minimum charge for a cycle, time to charge, etc.

In practice, what it looks like for my devices:

1. I plug in my phone when I go to bed.
2. Phone charges to 40% (if it's not already >40%) and stops charging.
3. At 5am or so, the phone is still at ~38%, it then charges to 80% and stops.
4. I get up and my phone is still at ~78% charge.

For devices with more software capabilities than phones (e.g. macOS) you can use software (e.g. Al Dente) that will cap the charge level and run off wall power. In practice this means that if I plug my laptop in at 90% charge, it will take weeks to drop to 80% since it's running off wall power, and unless I'm doing particularly high power-draw things the drop to 80% comes down to the battery's self-discharge rate.
Talk starts around ~16:20 minutes in..
Although Clang does set the `__GNUC__` macro and you have to distinguish it using the `__clang__` macro, Clang and GCC also both have very fine-grained feature detection features as well, both at the CLI level and in the preprocessor (such as the `__has_feature` family of builtins).
>it's not without it's challenges

This is a nice way of saying that we are breaking the law.
I don’t know — I’m not claiming to. I’m simply claiming that it’s a commonly-held belief.